Date: 01/01/2015

Number: 18128

The third largest California overwintering site in 2014

This wintering site is known as Butterfly Grove Sanctuary, Pacific Grove. It was one of 4 sites that had more than 10,000 monarchs during the annual Thanksgiving Count in November, 2014.

This site's Thanksgiving Count data:

November, 2010: 4,968

November, 2011: 12,265

November, 2012: 10,790

November, 2013: 13,420

November, 2014: 18,128

Summary of 2014 Thanksgiving Count data:
Total reported: 234,731 monarchs

Total counts: 185 sites

Average: 1,268.8 monarchs

Data collected by volunteers for the 2014 The Xerces Society Western Monarch Thanksgiving Counts. Database created by Dennis Frey (Cal Poly), Shawna Stevens (Cal Poly), and Mia Monroe (Muir Woods NPS)

Pacific Grove Butterfly Sanctuary, CA

Latitude: 36.6 Longitude: -121.9

Observed by:
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